Photograph everyday objects

Photographing everyday objects shows that the everyday can be totally amazing.

Every day you are presented with a trillion opportunities to capture something unique from the things around you that you have never looked at correctly before, but can any simple, everyday object be the subject of creative and artistic photography? Absolutely.

Could the same everyday photography theme be just as boring with ruled shapes, dim lighting, and an unexciting and highly predictable shot too? Absolutely.

The choice is completely yours.

Take something as basic as a kitchen scene, peel potatoes on a kitchen bench.

Depending on how you look at it, it’s mundane, task-oriented, and boring, or an opportunity to capture the everyday as a moment in time in a perfectly balanced combination of form and composition with abstract shapes and colors that sing positively with impact.

Are you not convinced? Give it a try and see for yourself. Set up your scene carefully or take a step back and see what’s already there with a new perspective, for example, incorporate some soap bubbles, a corner of a pile of potato peels, a shiny bench, and a different point of view. . Add a couple of brightly colored potato peelers. Shift your camera to macro and all of a sudden there is a mix of abstract shapes and forms before you that rival any work of art.

Photographing Everyday Objects with Impact and Style: Tips and Ideas to Try

• Turn off your flash
• Look for the spaces between the objects rather than the objects themselves
• See your scene through an object such as a bottle, a cellophane sheet, a metal screen with a large space.
• Add a strong light source or choose a position with strong light coming from one direction to create drama
• Look for an angle that brings out dramatic lighting and shadows for an amazing mix of high drama.
• The garden opens up a trillion opportunities
• Macro photos of flowers
• Tree bark
• Paint peeling
• Close the corners of buildings,
• Abstract shapes formed by the light and shadow of the leaves
• Boards in buildings
• Bubbles in the kitchen sink

The best advice is to always, always carry your camera everywhere, you don’t know what great photos await you and you never know when inspiration will hit.

Take every opportunity you can to daydream and let your mind free itself and conjure up its own ways of finding your photographs that you will be proud to hang on your walls and show to your friends and family.